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Current Projects
- Melbourne Water – Using health based targets to develop a catchment management optimisation program (CMOP), with Jacobs and SIP Advisory
- Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC and Victorian DELWP – Social values in bushfire management decision making (INFFER Project)
- Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Protection – Queensland Reef Water Quality Program Evaluation – with Eberhard Consulting, Blue Sense Consulting and C2O Consulting
- West Gippsland CMA – Rainbow Creek Management Plan with Blue Sense Consulting and Ian Rutherfurd
- NRM North (Tasmania) – Eastern Barred Bandicoot INFFER Assessment
- North East CMA – Embedding Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture, North East Victoria with support from Spatial Vision, Meridian Agriculture and Bridge Logic
- Fitzroy Basin Association – MERI framework for Grazing Best Management Practice (BMP) reef project supporting Eberhard Consulting
- Port Phillip and Westernport CMA – Protection and enhancement of Ramsar listed wetlands and priority coasts in the Port Phillip and Westernport region
INFFER Assessment
Completed projects
2018
- Hunter Local Land Services (NSW) – Evaluation of the Hunter Local Land Services Land Management Grant Program
- Kilter Rural – Project opportunity scan
- NRM North (Tasmania) – INFFER Training and project development support
- NRM South (Tasmania) – INFFER project development support
- Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (Victoria) – Investing in Integrated Catchment Management: development of principles
- Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (Victoria) – Sunryasia Rejuvenation Project Final Evaluation Report
- West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority – supporting Blue Sense Consulting to evaluate the Indigenous Partnerships Program
- North Queensland Dry Tropics NRM (Qld) – Exploring new incentives – scoping and trialling incentives and institutional arrangements, as part of a consortium led by James Cook University
- Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning – Developing an overarching coordination framework for long-term water quality monitoring in the Port Phillip and WesternPort region – supporting Blue Sense Consulting
- North Central CMA – INFFER Project development
- Land Stewardship Centre Canada – Utilising INFFER as a Decision Support Tool for Agri-environmental Programming in Brazeau County, Alberta
- West Gippsland CMA – Lake Wellington Land and Water Management Plan Renewal (supporting Jacobs)
- Queensland Farmer Federation – evaluation framework advice
- North Central CMA – Sustainable Agriculture Program – Regenerative Farming Framework
- Landcare Australia & Mid North Coast Council (NSW) – INFFER Training and Support
2017
- Australian Government Reef Trust – Great Barrier Reef Agricultural Renewal Investment Fund for The Nature Conservancy and Kilter Rural
- Mount Alexander Shire Council – Land Management Rebate Program implementation support
- Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (Victoria) – Rural Drainage Costs and Benefits to Agriculture (supporting Jacobs)
- Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (Victoria) and West Gippsland CMA – Riparian Benefit Cost Scoring Tool with Blue Sense Consulting
- NSW Office of Environment and Heritage – Private Land Conservation Direct Offer project
- Melbourne Water – Source Water Catchment Protection (INFFER and CMIS)
- Port Phillip and WesternPort CMA – Ramsar Protection Program: French Island Feral Cat Eradication (INFFER Assessment)
- Waikato River Authority NZ – INFFER and project prioritisation support
- Australian Institute of Marine Science – INFFER analysis for Crown of Thorns Starfish outbreak control
- West Gippsland CMA – Perry River Integrated Catchment Management Project Development – in partnership with Blue Sense Consulting
- Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council Limited (AFAC) and Forest and Fire Management Group: National Burning Project (subproject 2)
‘Report on an analysis of the tools and methodologies available to balance competing objectives of burning programs and matching these to users’ - Melbourne Water – Melbourne Water owned land – prioritisation framework (INFFER)
- Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning (Victoria) – Developing options for resourcing the ongoing management of fenced riparian land
- North Central CMA and Coliban Water – Integrated Catchment Management Plan for the Upper Coliban Catchment
- Connecting Country – Woodland bird INFFER analysis review
- North East CMA – North East Regional Catchment Strategy (Urban Landscape Condition Monitoring) – in partnership with Patten Bridge/Bridge Logic
- Mount Alexander Shire – Review of Land Management Rebate Program
2016
- Kingborough Council (Tas) – Bruny Island Cat Control (INFFER analysis)
- Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (Qld) – Costs of achieving the water quality targets for the Great Barrier Reef (As part of a consortium led by Alluvium Consulting)
- NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (Office of Environment and Heritage) – Evaluation of the Enhanced Bushfire Management Program
- North East Catchment Management Authority – Landscape condition monitoring & reporting (with Patten Bridge/Bridge Logic)
- Burnett-Mary Regional Group (Qld) – Evaluation and Final Review (Reef Programme)
- North Central CMA – Review of Landcare/Community Grants Program
- NQ Dry Tropics – Burdekin Water Quality Improvement Plan (INFFER analysis)
2015
- Department of Environment/National Landcare Advisory Committee (NLAC) – Understanding and identifying the economic impacts of investment in the National Landcare Programme activities
- SEQ Catchments – Catchment Action Planning (INFFER analysis)
- North Central CMA – Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Plan
- West Gippsland CMA – Climate Change Planning support
- Department of Environment and Primary Industries (Vic) – Investigation of the cost-sharing and funding allocation approaches used in Victorian riparian management programs
- East Gippsland CMA – Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Plan
2014
- Burnett-Mary Regional Group – Water Quality Improvement Plan
- Burnett-Mary Regional Group – Climate Change Planning support
- West Gippsland CMA – Regional Waterway Strategy (planning support)
- Terrain NRM – Wet Tropics Water Quality Improvement Plan (INFFER analysis component)
- West Gippsland CMA – INFFER analysis for Gippsland Plains Grassy Woodlands and Alpine Peat-bogs (with RMCG)
- Corangamite CMA (on behalf of 7 Victorian CMAs) – NRM and Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment (with Spatial Vision)
2013
- West Gippsland CMA – INFFER analysis for the Corner Inlet Ramsar site
- Land Stewardship Centre (Alberta, Canada) – INFFER analysis for threatened bird species (Sage Grouse)
- Northern Gulf NRM – INFFER training
- Department of Environment & Primary Industries – Development of a Waterway Benefit: Cost Scoring Tool
- West Gippsland CMA – Waterway prioritisation for Regional Waterway Strategy.
- North Central CMA – Waterway prioritisation for Regional Waterway Strategy.
- Corner Inlet Water Quality Improvement Plan – INFFER analysis and underpinning bio-economic modelling.
- Greening Australia QLD – Improving Gold Coast vegetation through seed supply
- INFFER analyses for the Wimmera Catchment Management Authority to assist development of Biodiversity Fund applications.
- INFFER assessment for conserving woodland birds in the Mount Alexander Shire in central Victoria for Connecting Country.
- Water quality assessment for the Bow River in Alberta in partnership with the Land Stewardship Centre of Canada.
- Development of application form and assessment methodology for the Living Victoria Fund – Office of Living Victoria.
- Asset identification and priority setting for the Western Australian Rangelands NRM Plan.